Partitioning and formatting a real hard drive in winuae

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Hi everyone.  I'm using winuae to partition and format (again) the hard drive I plan to use in my 2000.  It's a 20gig ide drive I'll be attaching to a buddha board.  

OS 3.1 recognizes the drive when it boots, that is, it shows up with an icon on the desktop.  But when I try to format it, it gives me an error like "not a valid dos disk".  It names the icon whatever I typed in during format.  If I try to copy files to the hard drive, it complains that it's not validated.  HDToolBox shows no hard drives at all attached.

The HDSetup tool on the 3.1 install disk can't seem to find the drive either.

Any idea what's happening?

brian

[Gebrochen]

One: Why you doing it that way, you know you can have Euae, and simply have the real amiga OS3.9 installed for your A2000??

Two: How are you doing your formatting procedure?? Through the installer?

Three: I had a similar problem with AROS on x86 hardware. So, I let it boot up from the cd, any chance you can do this, just to get the formatting done?(OS3.9)

Four: If your doing it via Amiga forever, forget it. You will need to format it with windows or linux as the base OS. Then install winUAE via AF or the like, amithlon and amikit can also be done.

Five: It seems you need to manually make your computer recognise that you have a HD installed perhaps??

Six: On the amiga forever website, there is a guide on how to install winUAE as your main bootable OS, and it wont show windows or linux at all.

But, I believe you would still require one of those other os's to be installed as a base platform for Winuae to work.

OK

Well, I may have indirectly helped you, who knows, but definately check out AF website, cloanto has a guide there for things like this by memory.

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I think we're talking about different things.  I have a real actual amiga 2000 with a buddha board in it.  I'm trying to get 3.1 installed correctly.  And I'm using winuae just to do the hard drive installation for the OS.  Once it's done, I'll put the hard drive in the 2000 and just use that.

As an update, I switched hdtoolbox to uaefs.device and it sees the hard drive now.  Formatting still doesn't work though.

brian

[MozzerFan]

If you want to use harddisks bigger than 4 gb under os3.1, you must install some patches (scsi.device and ffs).
You can find them here

Instead of using FFS as a filesystem you could also use SFS

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@brian

You do have 3.1 ROM chips installed in your A2000, I only ask as you don't seem to have to original 3.1 disks which would allow you to do all the installing in the A2000... No real need to to via the UAE route for this excercise...

[darksun9210]

yeah i'm puzzeled too, whats the idea behind using WinUAE? :-?

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bloodline wrote:
@brian

You do have 3.1 ROM chips installed in your A2000, I only ask as you don't seem to have to original 3.1 disks which would allow you to do all the installing in the A2000... No real need to to via the UAE route for this excercise...

Yeah, I have 3.1 roms, but not the install disks.  

I reattached the hard drive to the 2000 and partitioned/formatted it there.  Then I put it back in winuae for the 3.1 os install.  All is well.

I'm having other problems now, but it's just the next step.  I installed everything that came with deneb, but it's not working.  It looks like the poseidon stack is reporting some sort of error at startup.  But the workbench covers up the error before I can see it.  I need more research there.  

Trident isn't working either.  It was complaining about mui being missing so I installed that.  Then it crashed the machine when I started it.  After the reboot, it just says that it can't start the application.  Not sure what's up with that yet.  Maybe it needs the poseidon stack to be there?

The buddha install script isn't working.  I'm going to see if I can get the 3.9 installer to work with it once deneb is working.

Also, I'm getting no CDROM icon on the desktop, but I think this is because I'm missing the device.  I haven't gotten to this problem yet.  If I can get the buddha installer working, this should go away.

I started with sfs on the 20 gig drive, but I couldn't get the 2000 to boot from it for some reason.  I reformatted the first 4 gigs as fsf and it's booting fine.  Maybe I didn't have the bootable check checked.  I plan to do sfs on the last 16 gigs and leave the os as ffs.  This is all ok as I planned a separate partition for the os anyway.

brian